Teacher Tenure Debate

Teacher tenure. What does this word mean? In many's eyes, tenure is seen as an unfair advantage to teachers and a cruel rule to students. However, according to teacherunion.com, “tenure is the practice of guaranteeing a teacher their job.” Typically, all teachers earn this privilege through quantity, and not by quality. Just a few years after starting to teach, they are granted tenure. And because of Teacher’s Union, it is almost impossible to break teacher (i.e. a bad teacher) from this rule. Teacher tenure is a highly debatable topic- Should it be kept or banned forever in all schools? However, there is clearly only one explanation to this problem: We simply cannot continue with teacher tenure. It has passed it’s expiration date and can no longer be useful in

During the late 18th century, tenure was passed in order to protect teachers against discrimination, such as race, gender, political stands, age, ethnical backgrounds, and religion. Today, society is more accepting of people’s differences than ever before. Since the world is so equal today, why still have tenure? The same discrimination can happen with any other job, too. What makes teachers so special? According to one of many tenure debates lead by teachers themselves, tenure no longer fits the original criteria to why it was started in the first place (because of gender, race, religion, political stands, etc.). However, some may think otherwise. It is true that change will always be a problem in the world one way or another. There is still discrimination in society. While this is a good point, let's not forget about the positives. Just one example is that gender discrimination is at it’s lowest point yet in America, right now. It is also true that the main reasons to why tenure was created in the first place is no longer as important now-a-days. Therefore, in conclusion, tenure is very out of date and should not be tolerated any